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  • 41Scheme — Scheme, n. [L. schema a rhetorical figure, a shape, figure, manner, Gr. ?, ?, form, shape, outline, plan, fr. ?, ?, to have or hold, to hold out, sustain, check, stop; cf. Skr. sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold out, AS. sige victory, G.… …

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  • 42stoic — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin stoicus, from Greek stōïkos, literally, of the portico, from Stoa (Poikilē) the Painted Portico, portico at Athens where Zeno taught Date: 14th century 1. capitalized a member of a school of… …

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  • 43Alfred de Vigny — Alfred de Vigny, 1832 …

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  • 44Gaius Lucilius — (c. 180 BC 103 BC), the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain, was born at Suessa Aurunca in Campania.The dates assigned by Jerome for his birth and death are 148 BC and 103 BC or 102 BC. But it is impossible to… …

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  • 45Ring (Suzuki novel) — infobox Book | name = Ring title orig = nihongo| Ring |リング|Ringu translator = image caption = Cover of the first British print by Harper Collins author = Koji Suzuki illustrator = cover artist = country = Japan language = Japanese series = genre …

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  • 46Aztec society — Aztec civilization …

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  • 47dramatic literature — Introduction       the texts of plays that can be read, as distinct from being seen and heard in performance.       The term dramatic literature implies a contradiction in that literature originally meant something written and drama meant… …

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  • 48stoicism — [ stəʊɪsɪz(ə)m] noun 1》 stoical behaviour. 2》 (Stoicism) an ancient Greek school of philosophy which taught that it is wise to remain indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain …

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  • 49philosophic — a.; (also philosophical) 1. Of philosophy. 2. Of a philosopher, of philosophers. 3. Wise, rational, reasonable, sound. 4. Calm, cool, collected, composed, unruffled, sedate, serene, tranquil, imperturbable, stoical, Platonic. 5. Temperate, frugal …

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  • 50stoicism — n. 1 the philosophy of the Stoics. 2 (stoicism) a stoical attitude …

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